Media Watch -- Vancouver Money Woes, Cities Get Games Makeover

The Financial Times writes about the problems Vancouver organizers are facing.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d5505a4e-e9b8-11dd-9535-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

Concerns about the escalating costs of the Vancouver Olympics are spreading throughout Canada, as evidenced in this editorial in the Windsor Star.

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=b55d2761-d247-4b23-9f2c-f36eec8cf80a

An editorial in the Miramichi Leader says the money spent on the Vancouver Olympics could be better spent in Miramichi, located on the other side of Canada from Vancouver.

http://miramichileader.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/543947

Despite a growing chorus of concerns about the Vancouver Olympics, Jon Ferry, a columnist for the Province says he remains “an unabashed Olympic booster.”

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=9ecaedd9-2700-40ec-b201-3da76a3b83df

Tokyo’s Olympic bid is causing the city to clean up its red light district, according to a report in the Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/19/kabukicho-tokyo-cleanup

London’s East End is getting a "makeover", in preparation for the Olympics, according to a report in the New York Times’ travel section.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/travel/25surfacing.html?ref=travel

The Times also profiles the newest Olympic sport discipline, ski cross, which will make its Olympic debut in Vancouver.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/sports/othersports/24cross.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Olympic%20ski%20cross&st=cse

The Province newspaper in Vancouver has published public reaction to the resignation of Jody Andrews, the manager of the Vancouver Olympic Village. The reaction is almost universally negative.

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=426ab8b2-604b-47e1-a573-66c166f66a1e

The Olympic tradition of renting one’s home for the Olympics for visitors will continue in 2010.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090119.BCAPARTMENT19/TPStory/National

The Associated Press of Pakistan has a profile of a Pakistani skier training in his attempt to qualify for the 2014 Olympics.

http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65360&Itemid=1

How does the IOC affect the Harvard Business School? The school’s publication the Harbusexplains.

http://media.www.harbus.org/media/storage/paper343/news/2009/01/20/News/Flag-Raising.Conflict-3588888.shtml

Chicago’s proposed tennis venue has upset bird watchers in Chicago.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sun-birds-2016-olympics-tennjan25,0,1473116.story

Writing for Reuters, Karolos Grohmann explains how the credit crunch is affecting the Olympic movement.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/8297515

ContractJournal.com, a British Web site that focuses on construction news, has an article on smaller concrete firms winning contracts for the London Olympics over larger firms.

http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2009/01/21/63922/olympics-concrete-frame-giants-losing-out-to-smaller-firms.html

The Houston Chronicle has an exclusive interview with Olympic icon Carl Lewis, before the start of his eponymously titled high school track meet.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6216309.html

An article in the Malta Independent explains how the resignation of Malta Olympic Committee sports director Pippo Psalia will affect sport in Malta.

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=82089

Written by Ed Hula III.